Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[shiftin_gear98]

That'll be some time next week then.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Dang.
You'll just have to sit on it and make brum noises

Who wants to be riding in this weather ?!

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by svenrico

Who wants to be riding in this weather ?!

No such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.

I will make an exception for frozen or snow covered roads though.....

[Craig380]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

No such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.

I tend to agree, unless motorbiking is involved .... the best thing for real winter weather is a car

[Adam Ef]

Originally Posted by Craig380

I tend to agree, unless motorbiking is involved .... the best thing for real winter weather is a car

Our family car isn't really up to green laning. The DRZ is. Or it would be if it had throttle cables.

Originally Posted by svenrico

Who wants to be riding in this weather ?!

I do ... off road though.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

No such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.

I will make an exception for frozen or snow covered roads though.....

Me too ,especially after I crashed down on to my back walking on an icey patch on the road last weekend and now think I could have a cracked rib

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Craig380

I tend to agree, unless motorbiking is involved .... the best thing for real winter weather is a car

Not even that, best thing is to stay off the roads altogether in some places at the moment. (if you can )

[admin]

Working on sons car. Modern cars are PIA the work on. Trying to remove the radiator fan and shroud. It just clips in, but you need to prise open all four clips whilst pulling up at the same time. All this with restricted access.

Also blown low beam bulb. Remove plastic cap but can't get my hand into the cavity to release the bulb due to the screen wash filler neck being in the way. Managed it in the end but it turns out that filler neck is removable, argh.

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[svenrico]

Originally Posted by admin

Working on sons car. Modern cars are PIA the work on. Trying to remove the radiator fan and shroud. It just clips in, but you need to prise open all four clips whilst pulling up at the same time. All this with restricted access.
Also blown low beam bulb. Remove plastic cap but can't get my hand into the cavity to release the bulb due to the screen wash filler neck being in the way. Managed it in the end but it turns out that filler neck is removable, argh.
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I think all car and motorcycle manufacturers should give more consideration to access for maintenance when they are designing vehicles.

[ethariel]

Originally Posted by svenrico

I think all car and motorcycle manufacturers should give more consideration to access for maintenance when they are designing vehicles.

It's in the manufacturers interest to make it as hard and complicated as possible for a non main dealer to work on thier products, keeps the dealers happy being able to charge 100, 200, 500 quid an hour to work on your vehicle.

If they could the whole thing would be modular, no repairs just swap a module out and charge the earth for them.